1. Byzantine Empire
"His thirst for blood was so unprecedented in recent times that those who are themselves thought cruel seem milder when slaughtering animals than he did when killing people. For he did not establish his victims' guilt of a crime and then dispatch them cleanly with the sword, which is a routine occurrence. Rather he butchered them and inflicted ghastly tortures. When he forced his prisoners, whoever they were, to pay ransoms, he had them strung up by their testicles--sometimes he did this with his own hands--and often the weight was too much to bear, so that their bodies ruptured and the viscera spilled out. Others were suspended by their thumbs or private parts, and a stone was attached to their shoulders. He would pace underneath them and, when he could not extort from them what was not in fact theirs to give, he used to cudgel their bodies over and over again until they promised what he wanted or died from the punishment. No one knows the number of those who perished in his gaols from starvation, disease, and physical abuse as they languished in his chains."" .
This vivid description was written in 1115 by Guibert of Nogent, the abbot of a small monastery near Laon in northeastern France. It concerned a prominent local lord named Thomas of Marle. The passage quoted does not exhaust Guibert's thoughts on Thomas: there is more in the same vein, a mixture of righteous indignation and wide-eyed fascination, which veers between the grimly realistic and the anatomically preposterous. From the point of view of the First Crusade, the description is of considerable interest because of the careers of the two men involved. Guibert was the author of a long chronicle of the crusade. The small number of surviving manuscripts suggests that it was less popular than some of the other histories produced by contemporaries, but it is nevertheless Middle Ages. Violence was everywhere, impinging on many aspects of daily life.
First of all, Vonnegut subtitles the book "The Children's Crusade" to show how the violent crusades we fight are fought by children, and that all crusades are childish (Hartshorne 444). ... Most readers would argue, however, that Vonnegut has actually succeeded in making a thing of great beauty out of a collection of tragic moments. ...
Mott and Stanton became allies to fight the crusade for women's rights because the female delegates attending the convention were denied recognition. ... Then, in 1881, Stanton and Anthony published the first volume of the History of Woman Suffrage, a collection of writings about the struggles of the movements, but it didn't stop there and two more volumes were published in the next five years. ... Her crusade lasted for over fifty years of her life, as she learned and profited from her mistakes and failures, realizing that everything isn't perfect. ...
The new antislavery crusade had a strong sectional character, and the activists criticized human bondage as contrary to the principles of republicanism and liberty, which was accepted as a "necessary evil." ... Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History. http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/socsci/hist/afrores.html: This site is indexed and linked to a wide variety of sources, including primary documents, text collections, and archival sources on African American history. ...
Crosby marks out the history of Western expansion from the Crusades through the colonization of the Canary Islands, the Western Hemisphere, Oceania and Africa. ... As European diseases killed off the inatives of the colonized lands, European settlers arrived with a collection of deliberate (animals and food) and accidental (pests) things to the new lands. ...
Later on during the Crusades it was reported that the Pope sent a ship laden with hospital supplies and able to serve as a transport ship for patients to Jerusalem. ... The collection was submitted to the special collections by Miss Alya Ray Taylor in the form of correspondence, photographs and a diary. ...
Medicine Europe saw the development of care for the sick in many ways, but there is a notable development in the way hospitals were set up during the crusades, it appears that there was an influence from what had been seen in the Muslim countries. ... This was established under Louis IX after his return from a journey on the crusades between 1254 - 1260 (Stanton, 1953). ... The book was not just a collection and application of knowledge, but also contained many ideas of Ibn Sina's and looked to medical condition and diseases, the use of drugs and treatments as well as psychology and pat...
The Corpus Juris Civilis, otherwise known as the Body of Civil Law is the modern name for a collection of works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 535, by order of Justinian I, Eastern Roman Emperor. ... The Fourth Crusade took place from 1202 AD to 1204 AD and was originally intended to conquer the Muslim controlled Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt. Instead, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. ...
A diverse collection of documents, literature and archaeology pave the way to our understanding of the ancient mythology of the Celts. ... The most acknowledged Irish piece contains a collection of prose tales, known as the Ulster Cycle.2 Within these epic stories, the heroes swear not by God but by the gods of their tribes. ...